The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

122 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
of them, Gaul, from the Celtic Geal, Fair, a
defignatioii evidently too effeminate for the bold
and ferocious Celtse; they all fignify a Wood-
lander. Geil-t, Guylh-t, and Guel-z, among the
Iri fn, the Welfh, and the Armoricans, import a
Man of the Kelli, Guylh, or Guel, a Wood ; all of
them the eviuent remains of the antient and obfo-
lete Gnid/nl or Gue/>6el a Wood. And feveral
woods in Wales are aftualiy denominated Cottel
to this day % Coil, the fame with the Cottel,
the Guylh, and the Kelli, of the Welfli, and an-
fwering to Gathel, Gael, and Gael, is the cuf-
tomary term for a Wood among the Irilh and
Highlanders at prefent. And Gulad occurs in Gul-
ad-£edhj the Welfh for a Woodlander ; Kelyd
appears in Kelydhon, the Britilh for Woods ; and
Gelht remains undifguifed in the Wellli language
at prefent : all correfponding to Galat, Gait,
Gaeld, and Celt, and all fignifying with them a
Wood. The celebrated appellations therefore of
Gathel-i, Galat-ae, Calet-es, An-Calit-es, and
Celtas, all import a Wood only. And bearing
the Celtic prefix before them, which is ufed in
the antient Hiftory of Ireland, as Fir-Bolg and
Fir-Damnon, and which is equally ufed in this
very appellation by the Irifli of the prefent mo-
inent, as Gallta or Fear-Gallta ; the denominar
' Mr. Lhuyd in N° 2. Appendix to Nicholfon's Scottifh
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